Mr. Balfour delivered the first of his Gifford Lectures at
Glasgow on Monday. The subject had not been revealed, and was only declared in the course of the lecture. Mr. Balfour began by admitting the failure of philosophy to solve the great problems which every man bad to face. Hardly any man of science treated philosophy seriously, while the plain man, whose picture of philosophy was of men "generally quarrelling in an unknown tongue," felt that it did not meet his difficulties. He himself had never been able to accept any of these great systems, he had none to offer, and did not intend to devote time to showing where he differed from those of others. Mr. Balfour then announced that his subject was Theism, and at once warned his hearers that when be spoke of God it was not the Absolute, "but the God whom a man
might easily love and adore, not merely the end or conclusion of a logical process."
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